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| Title: | From Water to World-Making: African Models and Arid Lands |
| Editor: | Pálsson, Gísli |
| Chapter(s): | Present |
| Year: | 1990 |
| Pages: | 206 |
| Language: | English |
| City of publisher: | Uppsala, Sweden |
| Publisher: | The Scandinavian Institute of African Studies |
| ISBN: | 9171063137 |
| Geographic terms: | Sudan Ethiopia Cape Verde Kenya Somalia Tanzania |
| Subjects: | Beja Boran Gabbra Maasai Nuba Turkana Rendille subsistence economy droughts |
| Abstract: | The essays in this book focus on human life in arid lands in Africa. While arid lands pose similar problems for all humans, experience of the ecological 'facts' of aridity and drought is socially constructed, and located in a specific context of world-making. The contributors analyse and compare the ways in which subsistence producers adapt to arid environments in Africa in the following articles: 'The sources of life: Boran conceptions of wells and water' (Ethiopia/Kenya), by G. Dahl and Gemetchu Megerssa; 'Cattle are companions, goats are gifts: animals and people in Turkana thought' (Kenya), by V. Broch-Due; 'Formal categories in Maasai symbolism' (Kenya), by A. Hurskainen; 'Ways of milk and meat among the Maasai: gender identity and food resources in a pastoral economy', by A. Talle; 'Cultural models in Cape Verdean fishing' (Cape Verde), by G. Pálsson; 'Symbolic identification among the Hadendowa of Eastern Sudan', by M.A. Mohamed Salih; 'From slave to citizen: cultural change among the Lafofa Nuba of Central Sudan', by L. Manger; 'The changing patterns of pastoral production in Somali society' (Somalia), by E. Poulsen; 'Drought and change amongst northern Kenya nomadic pastoralists: the case of the Rendille and Gabra', by M.F. O'Leary; 'Pastoral territoriality and land degradation in Tanzania', by D.K. Ndagala. |
